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Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 02/01/69 11:51
Adrienne Boswell wrote:
> Gazing into my crystal ball I observed "Ioannis" <morpheus@olympus.mons>
> writing in news:1151354289.837293@athnrd02:
>
>> I am using Windows XP Home edition SP1 fully patched. Everytime I
>> click on a .pdf link, IE 6 loads the page correctly, (probably by
>> using the Acrobat Reader plugin) and displays fine. But when I quit
>> the .pdf file, either as a result of clicking on a new link or moving
>> onto a different web location, looking at TaskManager, a process
>> "Acrobat.exe", continues being loaded into memory, occupying around 12
>> Megabytes, subsequently slowing my system down.
>>
>> If I shut it down manually from TaskManager, all is ok. Question is,
>> is there a way to have this process (Acrobat.exe) unload automatically
>> whenever I move away from a .pdf page or is it some sort of XP glitch
>> that's unavoidable to always have it loaded automatically on every
>> visit to a .pdf link?
>>
>> Many thanks in advance,
>
> I don't like Adobe, and I almost never open something in a browser
> window. I have my browsers configured to download and then I view it
> later, at my convenience.
>
> Adobe also has a nasty habit, as does RealPlayer and a few others, of
> always wanting to load itself on startup. I look at PDF's less than once
> every three months, why do I need something sitting in memory?
So does MS Office and a host of many other programs. A windows user
should come accustomed to deleting shortcuts in the 'Startup' folder.
Also 'msconfig' is your friend (if you do not feel comfortable doing a
little registry editing)...
As to RealPlayer and their ilk, they also have a nasty habit of becoming
your *default* media player even if you try to configure them not to. I
use the freeware RealAlternative and QuicktimeAlternative plugins, get
the codec without the crap!
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Take care,
Jonathan
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